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When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
More ≠ more.
The Overthinker.
No one is coming to save you.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
More moves and less chat.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Think of many things; do one.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Realize.
Distraction, focus.
Builder, investor, trader.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Resistance lifts.
The first step is the steepest.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Reason for being
It is really hard to make something easy.
Building vs. betting.
Work vs. Luck
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The giver is the recipient.
Process vs. plan.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Alan Watts
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
80:20
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
No, it took me my whole life.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Perspective.
It's all relative.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Failure = feedback.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Hare & tortoise.
Appreciation.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
